The Abandoned House

The floor breathes, the walls whisper. Forgotten traces emerge. From the outside the house looks empty. Inside, something has started to stir. Welcome to The Abandoned House.

The empty part of the historic building by Vordingborg Station becomes the main character in this sensory-rich and immersive performance.

Three special hosts welcome you and guide you through the house – up stairs, through doors and ever further into a world with its own time and its own rules. Voices filter through the walls. Human-sized puppets awaken beneath hands. A song calls from another room.

The Abandoned House is a performance about life in the buildings we have left behind. The pace slows down, the senses are awakened. The audience moves through an abandoned house among performers, puppets, sculptures, sound, light and installations. The building itself appears as an animated, living scenic system with its own logic, resonance and life. Here there is no stage and no fixed spectator seating. You step directly into the work and become part of it yourself.

About the company
Sew Flunk Fury Wit is a locally based company that has toured internationally for more than 10 years and creates cross-aesthetic works (including DUST/Ritual/The Foxcave).

Crediting

Svend E. Kristensen: artistic director, performer, puppeteer
Louise Bonde: performer
Esben Wormslev: performer
Jesper Pedersen: director
Laura Rathschau: costume designer & set designer
Andro Mazoni: composition & sound design
Martin Danielsen: lighting designer
Anna Gohr: Production Manager
Katrine Karlsen: puppet maker
Kristian Knudsen: metal plate etchings
Kasper Thomsen: text excerpt
Kristine Kohlmetz: producer & photography

Produced by Sew Flunk Fury Wit in co-production with Egnsteatret.

Thanks to: set design assistant Pelle Staack and Christine Scheel Kvint, costume design assistants Hollow Creature Nanna Henneberg, Sarah Kollmann and Marija Mimoza, nail decoration Rosa Kohlmetz, puppet maker assistant Tom Vogel, models Alvin Kristensen and Emilie Largier, assistant Freja Barrett and intern Klara Svejgaard.

Supported by the Danish Arts Foundation, the Knud Højgaard Foundation, the William Demant Foundation, the Aage and Johanne Louis-Hansen Foundation, the Danish Actors' Association, Vordingborg Municipality and DSB